Shakespeare and the Reason: A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.' Frank Kermode, New Statesman. In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation. |
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... the Problem Plays Terence Hawkes. SHAKESPEARE AND THE REASON A Study (y' the Tragedies and the Problem Plays by TERENCE HAWKES Routledge £9" Kegan Paul LONDON First published 1964 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway. Original Title ...
... the Problem Plays Terence Hawkes. SHAKESPEARE AND THE REASON A Study (y' the Tragedies and the Problem Plays by TERENCE HAWKES Routledge £9" Kegan Paul LONDON First published 1964 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway. Original Title ...
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... London, E.C.4 Printed in Great Britain by Bookprint Ltd Kingswood, Surrey © Terence Hawkes 1964 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brig” passages in ...
... London, E.C.4 Printed in Great Britain by Bookprint Ltd Kingswood, Surrey © Terence Hawkes 1964 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brig” passages in ...
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... Note: All Shakespearean quotations and references are taken from The Complete Works (Tudor Edn.), ed. Peter Alexander, (London, 1951). Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together, To themselves Acknowledgements.
... Note: All Shakespearean quotations and references are taken from The Complete Works (Tudor Edn.), ed. Peter Alexander, (London, 1951). Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together, To themselves Acknowledgements.
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... (London, 195 5) , p. 2 I 5. 1 A.J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge (Penguin edn. London, I 1. Reason and Intuition: Appearance and Reality.
... (London, 195 5) , p. 2 I 5. 1 A.J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge (Penguin edn. London, I 1. Reason and Intuition: Appearance and Reality.
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... London, 1956), p. 33. 2 An interesting and certainly valuable modern view of these issues is given by T. E. Hulme in 'The Philosophy of Intensive Manifolds', in Speculations, ed. Herbert Read (London, 1924). See also Frank Kermode, The ...
... London, 1956), p. 33. 2 An interesting and certainly valuable modern view of these issues is given by T. E. Hulme in 'The Philosophy of Intensive Manifolds', in Speculations, ed. Herbert Read (London, 1924). See also Frank Kermode, The ...
Contents
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2 Hamlet | 39 |
3
The Problem Plays | 72 |
4
Othello | 100 |
5
Macbeth | 124 |
6 King Lear | 160 |
Conclusion | 194 |
Index | 203 |
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